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Working PaperCostly Sanctions and the Treatment of Frequent Violators in Regulatory SettingsRegulators typically treat frequent violators more harshly. When does such harsh treatment maximize overall compliance?
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Working PaperFull- Vs. Half- Day Pre-K: Results from Year 1 of a Longitudinal, Multi-Cohort Randomized Control Trial
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Working PaperMeasuring the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions at Scale: The Implications of Using Local Practitioners to Conduct Classroom Observations
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Working PaperOn the Benefits and Costs of Public Access to Data Used to Support Federal Policy MakingOver the past few decades, the quality of published scientific research has increasingly come into question. Top academic journals and research organizations have realized that empirical research that cannot be replicated has little credibility.
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Working PaperFalse beliefs are associated with racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations only among White (not among non-White) medical students and residents
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Working PaperKeep the Kids Inside: Juvenile Curfews and Urban Gun ViolenceGun violence is an important problem across the United States. Due to limited data, it has been difficult to convincingly test the impacts of government policies on the quantity and geography of gunfire. This paper uses a new source of data on gunfire incidents, which does not suffer from selective underreporting common in other crime datasets, to measure the effects of juvenile curfews in Washington, DC.
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Working PaperDisaster Preparedness and Disaster Response: Evidence from Sales of Emergency Supplies Before and After HurricanesGovernment information warns households to acquire emergency supplies as hurricanes threaten and directs households to stay off roads after hurricanes make landfall. Do households follow this advice?
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Working PaperSpatial Models of Legislative EffectivenessSpatial models of policymaking have evolved from the median voter theorem through the inclusion of institutional considerations such as political parties, committees, and various voting and amendment rules. Such models, however, implicitly assume that no policy is more effective than another at solving public policy problems and that all proposers are equally capable of advancing proposals.
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Working PaperExperimental Evidence on Early Intervention: The Impact of Full-day KindergartenNearly all school-age children in the United States attend kindergarten, and approximately three-quarters of kindergarten students are in full-day classrooms. While there have been dramatic increases in provision of and participation in full-day kindergarten, there is little evidence on the impact and cost-effectiveness of such programs and policies, particularly as compared to other types of investments in early childhood.
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Working PaperCan Congress Do Policy Analysis? The Politics of Problem Solving on Capitol HillThe conventional wisdom is that the U.S. Congress is not well-structured to do policy analysis. According to the received view, Congress’s internal organization is inconsistent with analytical perceptions and definitions of policy issues.
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Working PaperAlleviating Poverty through Housing Policy ReformThe purpose of this paper is to describe proposals for reform of low-income housing assistance that will alleviate poverty without increasing public spending. Low-income housing assistance is fertile ground for such reforms.